Working with a coach or healer, yoga or meditation teacher, is most successful when there you have a natural rapport with them. The aim of the blog is to provide valuable insights and also to give you a feel for Joanne’s style.
For this simple beginner yoga sequence, begin by resting in this position for 5 minutes. Lie down on your back with knees bent, feet close to your buttocks.
Today we will talk about how to feel more confident, more powerful, centred and whole. In the last two meditation classes, we have been exploring the concept of “magnetising yourself”. It helped us focus on how to make life more fun and manageable. We leave parts of ourselves in the activities and emotions of our day. […]
You will never reach your business goals if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Winston Churchill. Welcome to a new year! I hope last year was excellent for you, but even if it wasn’t we get to use the new year as an opportunity to start over and my job is to […]
In our yoga classes this week we’ve been discussing the idea of emotional resilience and self-containment. What it means to be able to contain our energy, our thoughts, our emotions, our actions. So, we can look after ourselves and we look after the people around us. What does it mean to contain oneself? Colloquially we […]
It’s that time of year when everyone is making their new year resolutions, or proclaiming how they won’t be or don’t believe in making new year resolutions – and it can get a bit sanctimonious on both sides! So how about this? Your resolutions, or lack thereof, are none of my business, and you cordially […]
A couple of years ago, I spent some time reading A Source of Miracles, by Kathleen McGowan, and I found her take on abundance very interesting. The part of her question that arrested my attention was “what if abundance came first and deserving second?”
When I was training as a coach, we were invited to see our clients as naturally being resourceful, creative and whole. Whatever the client might feel, whatever evidence of stuckness, we were to regard the person as a whole; as capable of finding their own solution; as endlessly creative and able to generate new possibilities […]
It’s a golden oldie in the positive psychology world, but I still swear by Dr Martin Seligman’s process on how to turn a pessimist into an optimist (check out his book Learned Optimism). The founding idea is that pessimism is escapable if you know how. Dr Seligman points out a simple causal relationship between what we think […]
Mindset is one of those terms that people bandy about but actually, what is a mindset and why should we care? A mindset is an established set of attitudes. Or: A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations.
A Simple Beginner Yoga Sequence
/in Emotional Energy /by Jo SumnerFor this simple beginner yoga sequence, begin by resting in this position for 5 minutes. Lie down on your back with knees bent, feet close to your buttocks.
How to feel more confident and powerful – more you!
/in Emotional Energy /by Jo SumnerToday we will talk about how to feel more confident, more powerful, centred and whole. In the last two meditation classes, we have been exploring the concept of “magnetising yourself”. It helped us focus on how to make life more fun and manageable. We leave parts of ourselves in the activities and emotions of our day. […]
The power of a 90 day plan to help you reach your business goals
/in Blog, Entrepreneurial Mindset /by Jo SumnerYou will never reach your business goals if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Winston Churchill. Welcome to a new year! I hope last year was excellent for you, but even if it wasn’t we get to use the new year as an opportunity to start over and my job is to […]
Emotional resilience and self containment
/in Blog, Emotional Energy /by Jo SumnerIn our yoga classes this week we’ve been discussing the idea of emotional resilience and self-containment. What it means to be able to contain our energy, our thoughts, our emotions, our actions. So, we can look after ourselves and we look after the people around us. What does it mean to contain oneself? Colloquially we […]
2019: The zen of January. The New Year resolution solution
/in Blog, Entrepreneurial Mindset /by Jo SumnerIt’s that time of year when everyone is making their new year resolutions, or proclaiming how they won’t be or don’t believe in making new year resolutions – and it can get a bit sanctimonious on both sides! So how about this? Your resolutions, or lack thereof, are none of my business, and you cordially […]
Money mindset: what if abundance comes first?
/in Blog, Entrepreneurial Mindset /by Jo SumnerA couple of years ago, I spent some time reading A Source of Miracles, by Kathleen McGowan, and I found her take on abundance very interesting. The part of her question that arrested my attention was “what if abundance came first and deserving second?”
Being resourceful, creative and whole: what if we are all naturally like that?
/in Blog, Emotional Energy, Entrepreneurial Mindset /by Jo SumnerWhen I was training as a coach, we were invited to see our clients as naturally being resourceful, creative and whole. Whatever the client might feel, whatever evidence of stuckness, we were to regard the person as a whole; as capable of finding their own solution; as endlessly creative and able to generate new possibilities […]
How to turn a pessimist into an optimist
/in Blog, Emotional Energy, Entrepreneurial Mindset /by Jo SumnerIt’s a golden oldie in the positive psychology world, but I still swear by Dr Martin Seligman’s process on how to turn a pessimist into an optimist (check out his book Learned Optimism). The founding idea is that pessimism is escapable if you know how. Dr Seligman points out a simple causal relationship between what we think […]
What is a mindset?
/in Blog, Emotional Energy, Entrepreneurial Mindset /by Jo SumnerMindset is one of those terms that people bandy about but actually, what is a mindset and why should we care? A mindset is an established set of attitudes. Or: A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations.